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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 5, 2015

PLAC1212-1559 Reducing the chances of human errors when physically dealing with disk subsystems

SUBMITTER SECTION
Submitted by: Carles.Aris
Submitters Company: la Caixa

PUBLIC
Requirement Number and Title: PLAC1212-1559 Reducing the chances of human errors when physically dealing with disk subsystems
Homework Assigned: No
Requirement Category: Core Technology
Current Status: Investigate
Closed Status:
Session:
Requirement Value Category: Continuous Availability / Continuous Operations
Product Affected: Data Power
Problem Description: Easy to make fatal errors when physically dealing with disk subsystems

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Oct 16, 2020

    .Thank you for the submission. The solution element being driven is LED light signals, and the team continues to add LED information lights each generation to address on-site actions like this. The information shared has been shared with our RAS & Service teams, and this specific RFE will be moved to "delivered" as more service LEDs are added program to program. z15 includes LED identifier panel is at the
    center of the PCIe+ drawer.

  • Guest
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    Aug 4, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #65605 in product z Systems Hardware.

  • Guest
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    Aug 4, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Hardware
    Product - z Systems Hardware
    Component - General/Miscellaneous
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - zBLC

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zBLC family
    Product - zBLC
    Component - zBLC Requirements
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - zBLC